In this district I have frequently noticed that a vast proportion of those affected with enlargement of the spleen, ranged between the ages of five and fifteen, and less frequent after the adult period of life; this seems strange, and leads mc to infer that a great many cases of " spleen" recover without any treatment "whatever, unless, indeed, all those affected during childhood die off before...

The use of diuretics for therapeutic purposes is not new. They were used for the treatment of dropsy as early as 16th century. Diuretic drugs increase urine output by the kidney by altering sodium handling. Increased sodium excretion by kidneys leads to increase in water excretion. Most diuretics produce diuresis by inhibiting the reabsorption of sodium at different segments of the renal tubula...

In one stream of development, one partner in the project had just achieved an interpretation of group cohomology or Lie-algebra cohomology in terms of higher-dimensional central extensions, as developed by Rodelo–Van der Linden [14, 15]. It extends the classical interpretation of the second group cohomology in terms of equivalence classes of short exact sequences with central kernel. This devel...

more famous grandson Charles, but his practical inventions included a speakingmachine, horizontal windmills, and a new type of carriage. As one of the leading members of the celebrated Lunar Society of Birmingham, he became a close friend of Boulton, Watt and Wedgwood, while he became involved in a bitter controversy with another member, William Withering, over priority in the use of digitalis ...

The whole plant of Achyranthes aspera has been used as remedy for a number of diseases such as dropsy, strangury, cough, kidney stones, dysentery and bowel complaints, According to traditional practice, a kheer prepared from the seeds of this plant is used to treat brain disorders. An attempt was made to fix the macroscopical, microscopical parameters of the leaf quantitative microscopy, physic...

As Knut Faber pointed out in his Nosography,l mendelism contributed much to nosology by focusing attention on specific entities. Bacteriology, with its similar emphasis on specific etiology and specific entities, had a comparable effect. One need only recall that a century ago, symptoms such as jaundice, dropsy and anemia were viewed as entities, in much of medicine at least, to realize the nos...

(i) The quality of the rice, as judged by the fineness of the grain. (ii) The process through which the rice grain has passed in its removal from the paddy. (in) The digestibility of the rice?from seasoning. (iv) Its vitamine content. With regard to quality, the best rice is transplanted rice, reaped during the winter months?the avian crop. Grain of the aus crop is coarse and not of good qualit...